WASHINGTON ? Devoted customers of Apple products these days worry about whether the new iPhone 6 will bend in their jean pockets.
The National Security Agency and the nation?s law enforcement agencies have a different concern: that the smartphone is the first of a post-Snowden generation of equipment that will disrupt their investigative abilities.
The phone encrypts emails, photos and contacts based on a complex mathematical algorithm that uses a code created by, and unique to, the phone?s user ? and that Apple says it will not possess.
The National Security Agency and the nation?s law enforcement agencies have a different concern: that the smartphone is the first of a post-Snowden generation of equipment that will disrupt their investigative abilities.
The phone encrypts emails, photos and contacts based on a complex mathematical algorithm that uses a code created by, and unique to, the phone?s user ? and that Apple says it will not possess.
